Many viewers have asked how they may contact Rebekah, Aaron, or Shawntelle from ‘True Life: I Work in the Sex Industry’. We can’t give out emails or phone numbers, but all three have Myspace pages or websites and they love hearing from fans of the show. So here they are:
Rebekah - www.myspace.com/zebek
Aaron - www.myspace.com/aaronajjames (Aaron’s professional name is Aaron ‘A.J.’ James)
Shawntelle is finishing up a new web site to help try and launch her radio show, and she’ll provide the link as soon as it’s ready.
If you want to prepare for the immense challenges of traveling around the world you should talk to someone who hasn’t done it. Because anyone who has done it knows how ridiculously easy it is once you take the leap and go. That doesn’t mean there aren’t challenges to overcome, times when things go wrong, and things to prepare before you go.
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More than three years after I began my around-the-world trip I’m still in contact with many of the people I met on the road and featured in “A Map for Saturday,” here’s what some of them are up to…
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On the frigid, filthy bathroom floor there was a steaming bucket of scalding water. It was boiled up in a Nepalese guesthouse because my two-dollar room included a helping of hot water that I was instructed to mix with the naturally freezing tap water to wash off the sweat of an all day Himalayan hike. We were at 12,500 feet and I was doubled over with altitude sickness; the nausea, diarrhea, and shoot-me headache dulling the splendor of one of the world’s great panoramas.
Such was the reality of my around-the-world trip that this set of facts also meant I was obliged to pull out my camera, tripod, and microphone to capture both the beauty and misery of the moment. When I set out to make a documentary about traveling around the world it meant I’d have to hit ‘Record’ during the most joyful and agonizing moments of an emotional year.
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For those of you who missed the premiere airing of ‘True Life: I Work in the Sex Industry’ (or for those of you saw it but need to watch it again because you’ve fallen in love with Rebekah, Aaron, or Shawntelle), here are some times the show will air again in the next few days:
Fri. Feb 29th, 2am
Sat. Mar 1, 12am (so friday night at midnight)
Sat. Mar 1, 9pm
Sun. Mar 2, 2am
Mon. Mar. 3, 1am
All times are Eastern/Pacific; for Central and Mountain, it’s an hour earlier. We’ll keep you posted on more air dates in the next few weeks.
Welcome to the first ever ‘True Life’ blog. The idea here is that those of us who produce the series will get a chance to interact with viewers, hear some opinions, answer questions, and share stories about making these shows. Since ‘True Life’ is known for raising eyebrows and provoking opinions, we couldn’t have picked a better subject for this first blog: sex. ‘I Work in the Sex Industry’ premieres tonight at 11P EST and if ever there was an episode to get people talking, this is it.
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If you ever want to be the center of attention at a party, just casually mention that you’re working on a documentary about the sex industry. You’ll soon be surrounded by people firing questions at you for the next few hours. Here are some of my answers to the most common questions people would ask me when they learned I was doing a tv show about porn, like “Why do guys who work in gay porn make so much more money than guys who work in straight porn?”
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